Example sentences of "they for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing was heard of them for fifteen years . |
| 2 | These men were taste-makers , whose judgements were important ; but the time available to them for writing was limited by the demands of negotiation and administration , so that they tended to write essays more than books , catalogue entries rather than articles . |
| 3 | There is a lot to pity them for — the stories touch on ghetto hardships , on murders and deportations . |
| 4 | She is sure that this will settle them for the foreseeable future . |
| 5 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 6 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 7 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 8 | My plan was to sit around and wait for one of the parish team to appear and then to ask them for their advice . |
| 9 | Anyway , the people at SIS are big enough to take it and I respect them for that . ’ |
| 10 | Traps should wither kill them instantly or confine them for release elsewhere . |
| 11 | Lift your legs slightly against the force of gravity , holding them for at least ten seconds , then let them relax again . |
| 12 | Economy of arm movement is important since the more you flail them about , the longer it takes to ‘ cock ’ them for an effective punch . |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry , Angus , ’ he was saying , ‘ my lad from Ballinluig never turned up , I had to get my father to blow the bellows — ouch ! some of them are still hot — that bag has charred , spread them out to cool , or keep them for tomorrow . |
| 14 | You have seized them for no crime at all . |
| 15 | And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand , and shalt be for frontlets between thine eyes . |
| 16 | They still have good memories of The Weavers playing together in concert — before Pete Seeger quit in the wake of Decca 's dropping them for their politicking — a symptom of McCarthyism , then gathering pace . |
| 17 | She does n't have a job , of course , so she does n't understand that things are different when you do them for a living . |
| 18 | Also please note that any Training Fund applications submitted within the last four weeks for courses organised by the Training Division have already been forwarded to them for attention . |
| 19 | There are other delicious gestures drawing attention to the feet in La Fille Mal Gardée such as Mother Simone gently tapping her clogs as if thanking them for allowing her to show off her particular style of dance . |
| 20 | If you intend to tile over existing tiles , you will have to drill holes through them for the masonry pins . |
| 21 | How should I prepare them for repainting ? |
| 22 | Sadly , Mr Cod was destined to be with them for only a short time . |
| 23 | This is that city which readers of Crime and Punishment carry with them for the rest of their lives . |
| 24 | Texas Instruments , having recognised the wider implications of producing high performance processors , has attached great importance to its C compilers and produces them for their TMS320C25 and TMS320C3x . |
| 25 | But what , then , are we to make of it when , in 1939 , writing an obituary of Ford , Pound lumped together two old associates of his , Fred Manning and Henry Newbolt , and excoriated them for continuing to use the ‘ poetical ’ diction from which Ford 's timely polemics had weaned Pound himself ? |
| 26 | We are most interested in the idea of networking , sharing skills such as translation and using them for distance learning . ’ |
| 27 | Speaking as the operation began , Mr Barnett thanked the person who gave permission for the donation : ‘ I know that Aisling , even if she does not survive , would want me to express my eternal gratitude to them for giving her the chance to live . ’ |
| 28 | Rupert Murdoch did not say that his Sky company and its associate Eurosport channel were ready yet to go head-to-head in rights fights with BBC when he announced a joint contract with them for England 's Test series in the West Indies this winter . |
| 29 | The humour inheres not just in the daffy selection of cultural allusions ( their native French accordion , some flamenco guitar , a few African horns ) but also in the way they take stiff , formal tempi ( waltzes and tangos ) and mockingly squeeze them for their stateliness . |
| 30 | We Westerners may take them for granted as part of the furniture of any self-respecting office and available to all on every high street . |